jaspers clandestine occupation
...we always thought
Jasper’s occupation was clandestine
He works in Chicago and Miamai
where gangsters work, right?
So is he a mobster?
He dresses like one, all in black.
We dared not ask him wha...
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Categories:
jaspers, addiction,
Form: Prose Poetry
Yet I Cling Long Version
...Blue
twinges
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
Y...
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Categories:
jaspers, age, august, deep, feelings,
Form: Nonet
Downtown Mission
...Grand Hope Flower
CA Hospital over
a century of healing
Construction din
all of downtown one
enormous construction
site with all its might
peeling into daylight
Executive traffic think...
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Categories:
jaspers, caregiving, culture, environment, good
Form: Free verse
Universal Tranquility
...Tranquility is
Amethyst skies
And
Lapis seas
Sprinkled
With
Diamond dust.
Jade fields of
Topaz and malachite
Dancing
In the
Suns rays.
Agate gardens
Filled with
Swirli...
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Categories:
jaspers, appreciation, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
Jaspers
...Jaspers are a gifted lot;
they mimic many things.
From poppies to a leopard’s spots,
their pictures really sing.
It weighs much less than many stones;
in it you’ll see colore...
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Categories:
jaspers, appreciation, color, earth, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Mad Jasper
...She walked in beauty Spare and Sprite
While all around her stopped and stared
As if in awe at such a Sight
But on she moved, oblivious She,
To those that Stared but could not see,
That now at la...
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Categories:
jaspers, humorous,
Form: Burlesque
Jackolantern
...Jackolantern
Jaws she blows tricks and treats
just the sweetest pumpkin,
jamming to candle light,
jaspers and goblins flight.
Jumping Jack's and Jills find,
jeweled cutouts divine,
jostling ...
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Categories:
jaspers, children, halloween,
Form: Verse
Jackie-O'-Lantern
...jackie-o'-lantern
jaws she blows tricks and treats
just the sweetest pumpkin,
jamming to candle light,
jaspers and goblins flight.
jumping jack's finds her door,
jeweled cutouts divine,
jost...
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Categories:
jaspers, halloween, sensual,
Form: Verse
The Annual Birthday Bbq Bash 2010
...Don’t the years go quick?
It’s another birthday BBQ
It’s that time of year again
When acquaintance is renewed
When family and friends
Come affably together
To eat a hearty meal outdoors
And ...
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Categories:
jaspers, friendshipbirthday, time, birthday, time,
Form: I do not know?
I Am Not a Nihilist, But I'M Getting There
...I am from solemn, vagrant, forgotten; from paper and cloth.
I am from the Wheatland.
A derelict gerdner, no longer tending the bud.
I am from Nietzsche and Jaspers,
from Mother and Father and ...
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Categories:
jaspers, childhood
Form: Free verse